Sujatha

Girls' name

Transliteration of स

Sujatha has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Sujatha, 1968

1 in 676,000

Sujatha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sujatha: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of स

Sanskrit

What Sujatha means

Sujatha is a transliteration of स.

Origin, language, and formation

Sujatha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sujatha comes through Hindi सुजाता.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include स.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Sujatha between 1968 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1968; its best national rank was #8,037 in 1968.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sujatha?

Sujatha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968: 1 in 676,000; 5 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 468,333 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sujatha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1968 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sujatha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sujathas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sujatha was born before 1968 — so the typical Sujatha is around 57 today.

Median birth year: 1968; About 57 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Sujatha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1968 (5)
Years since peak: 57; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,037; 1968

Spellings of Sujatha

Sujatha is not the most common spelling — Samatha is, with 99.9% against Sujatha's 0.12%.

Samatha99.9%4,202
Sujatha0.12%5

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Sujatha around the world

Where Sujatha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1977–1977
#637
in 1977

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sujatha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,037; 1968
Peak year: 1968; 5 that year
First recorded: 1968
Last recorded: 1968
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sujatha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Pritha Sujeiry Argatha Oneatha Nawatha Saratha Noretha Annetha Arnitha Kimatha Renitha Daretha Jenitha Celetha Taritha Caletha Tyletha Janitha Janetha Sunitha Tahitha Laritha Nivetha Hasitha

Sibling names for Sujatha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Nichelle Aretha Brigette Josette Cami Missy Marnie Evette

For a brother

Kraig Kelley Thad Tracey Jacques Deron Judd Douglass

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